Gardening Catalog Terminology

As many of us are entering into the "bleak midwinter" months, my mailbox is filling up with gardening catalogs that remind me that winter will end and next year's gardening season will begin. Even though I have already started to make mental plans of our 2012 garden, as I look through these catalogs, I start to dream about adding other things to it. Here's a picture of my favorite gardening catalogs:

As I dream about new plantings and fight the temptation of once again trying something that has failed for me in the past, I am amused at this list of terms used in gardening wish books.

I hope some of you will explore the offerings of the companies to which I've linked. Do you have any favorite catalogs or sources for seeds or plants? Are you already planning next year's garden? Maybe you seasoned gardeners can contribute your own real meanings of other phrases used in gardening catalogs.

If you want to see what we've been up to lately, Becka's latest blog post tells about our adventures this past week. She mentions in her post that I painted a room while we were at Megan and Jim's last week. Nora and Topher are up there now, and to one of the new light green walls in the nursery Nora has added a tree. Here's a picture of her creation, which kind of goes with the gardening theme of this blog post.

Such creative talent!

Lord willing, if I don't post something sooner, I'll be back at you next week, which is also next year. Wishing each of you a Happy New Year 2012.

two gardening quotations...

"My garden is an honest place. Every tree and every vine are incapable of concealment and tell after two or three months exactly what sort of treatment they have had." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it." — Charles Dudley Warne

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Rob

Gardening tools do not need to be expensive. Use what is available. Your knees, for example, are perfect rock or stone detectors.

Pinetree is our favorite because we can get seed mixes that allow us to try different varieties with one planting (especially lettuce & radishes). Their German Giant radishes are unbeatable, though, so we’ve started just saving seed for those so we can grow them year after year.

I don’t usually order from other catalogs, but this winter I saw some really cool rainbow corns for sale in one. One variety had pastel pinstriped foliage, and another had a blend of pastel kernels. Never had a lot of success with corn, and I hate to use pesticides, but it looks really tempting!

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